K-9 Vajra assembly line at the L&T factory in Hazira, Gujarat. (Photo: Larsen & Turbo)New Delhi: India’s defence production reached an unprecedented ₹150,590 crore in the financial year 2024-25, marking an 18 per cent increase fro...
Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, a gunnery and missile systems specialist with extensive triservices experience, assumed charge as the vice-chief of naval staff in a ceremony at New Delhi, on ...
Gen Upendra Dwivedi during his Kargil Vijay Diwas 2025 speech at Drass. Drass/New Delhi: The Indian Army chief, General Upendra Dwivedi, announced a sweeping modernization programme during Kargil Vijay Diwas commemorations at Drass, on Saturday....
An Akashteer C4ISR system.New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence has awarded a ₹2,000 crore contract to state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for supplying advanced air-defence fire-control radars to the Indian Army, marking a significant st...
One of the three Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardians after being unloaded from an Antonov-124 aircraft. (Photo: Indian Army) New Delhi/Hindon: In what the Indian Army termed as a “milestone moment” for the service, the first batch o...
The terrorist attack at Pahalgam on April 22 changed everything. Twenty-six innocent tourists, segregated by religion and murdered in cold blood by Pakistan-based terrorists, triggered a chain of events that would fundamentally alter how we understan...
Akash Prime during its validation test in Ladakh.New Delhi: India has successfully validated its upgraded Akash Prime surface-to-air missile system in challenging high-altitude conditions in Ladakh, destroying two high-speed unmanned targets at 15,00...
The DRDO-developed truck-mounted howitzer. (India Sentinels photo via special arrangement)New Delhi: The Indian Army is set to conduct comprehensive trials of an indigenously developed mounted gun system that promises to revolutionize artillery mobil...
File photo of the defence minister, Rajnath Singh.New Delhi: The defence minister-headed Defence Acquisition Council has approved 10 major capital acquisition proposals worth approximately ₹1.05 lakh crore, marking the country’s most sign...
New Delhi: The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani-led Reliance Defence Limited has secured a substantial export contract worth ₹600 crore from German arms giant Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH. This marks a significant breakthrough for India’s private...